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Word Origin & History

carbine 1590, from Fr. carabine, used of light horsemen and also of the weapon they carried, perhaps from M.L. Calabrinus "Calabrian." One far-fetched theory connects it to O.Fr. escarrabin "corpse-bearer during the plague," lit. (probably) "carrion beetle," said to have been an epithet for archers from Flanders.

Example Sentences for carbine

A chorus of night cries awoke to the sharp crack of a carbine.

At last, by a sudden jerk, he succeeded in wresting his carbine from him.

But even if you had missed I had him covered with my carbine.

As they approached the tan-vats he espied a carbine lying on the ground.

Lately, too, we have gone through a course of carbine instruction.

He took me to a small room, where I saw my carbine and pistols.

The carbine had been fired; perhaps the bullet was in his brain.

I has a forty-four carbine, a forty-five rifle and a thirty rifle.

Then he snapped down the visor of his helmet, unslung his carbine, and presented it.